Case study · Electricians · Ireland
Electrician Case Study Ireland: +136% Leads
How a 6-electrician contracting business in Galway grew calls and enquiries 136% and cut cost per lead 45% in 6 months with Business Listings and Local SEO.
Illustrative case study: the business is anonymised and the figures are modelled on typical results for this market.
Electricians · Ireland
Electrical
A 6-electrician contracting business based in Galway, serving the wider Galway area and focused on full rewires and fuse board upgrades. Before working with us, 66% of enquiries came through trade directories and similar paid platforms, where the same lead often went to three or four competitors. The goal was more exclusive calls and enquiries, a lower cost per booked job and a pipeline the owner controls.
Results After 6 Months
Leads per month
+136%
Cost per lead
-45%
Marketing-sourced revenue
+163%
Return on marketing spend
10.1x
The challenge
Where the business was stuck
- Small callout jobs fill the diary but rarely pay well, while switchboard upgrades, rewires and EV chargers go to better-marketed firms.
- Commercial and residential work need completely different marketing, but most electricians run one generic website for both.
- Many electrical businesses rely on referrals, which makes growth unpredictable from month to month.
- Peak season (demand is fairly steady, with retrofit and ev work growing year-round) was not being planned for, so budget ran out when demand was highest.
The approach
Two services, one goal
We focused on Business Listings & Citations and Local SEO & Google Maps, the two channels with the best cost per booked job for electrical contracting businesses in Galway. Every call, form and chat was tracked to a booked outcome from week one, so every decision was based on revenue, not clicks.
What we did
The technical work behind the numbers, service by service.
Service 1
Business Listings & Citations
- Claimed and completed profiles on Google Business Profile, Bing Places, Apple Business Connect and 38 local and industry directories.
- Cleaned name, address and phone details everywhere, removing 4 duplicate listings that were splitting reviews and confusing Google.
- Added services, photos, opening hours, licence numbers and booking links to every profile, with UTM tags to track leads by source.
- Set up monthly listing monitoring so incorrect edits by users or aggregators are caught and fixed within days.
Service 2
Local SEO & Google Maps
- Rebuilt the Google Business Profile: primary category corrected, 3 secondary categories added, 9 services with descriptions and a service area matched to the real travel radius.
- Published 8 suburb and area pages across the wider Galway area, each with local job photos, travel times and area-specific FAQs.
- Launched a review request flow by SMS after every completed job, lifting review velocity from 1 to 20 new reviews a month.
- Tracked rankings on a 7x7 geo-grid around the office to see Maps visibility street by street, not just from one location.
The numbers
Before and after
| Metric | Before | Month 6 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calls and enquiries per month | 58 | 137 | +136% |
| Cost per lead | €47 | €26 | -45% |
| Cost per booked job | €126 | €62 | -51% |
| Lead-to-job rate | 37% | 42% | +4 pts |
| Website conversion rate | 3.4% | 4.7% | +40% |
| Marketing-sourced revenue / month | €19k | €51k | +163% |
| Share of leads from paid directories | 66% | 16% | -50 pts |
| Listings with consistent details | 16 | 41 | all fixed |
| Keywords in the Maps top 3 | 5 | 24 | +19 |
Lead growth
Calls and enquiries per month
Marketing-sourced revenue went from €19k to €51k a month, measured from booked booked jobs in the CRM.
Optimisations That Moved The Numbers
- 01
Fixing duplicates and inconsistent details lifted Google Business Profile views by 20%.
- 02
Bing, Apple Maps and directory profiles now produce 15 tracked leads a month that did not exist before.
- 03
Adding 3 secondary Google Business Profile categories lifted discovery searches by 49% in six weeks.
- 04
Area pages for Cork moved the business from outside the top 20 to position 1 in the Maps pack for its main service there.
The 6-month timeline
From tracking to scale.
Weeks 1 to 2
Audit, tracking and baseline
Call tracking, conversion tracking, CRM connection and a full audit covering Business Listings and Local SEO.
Weeks 3 to 6
Build and launch
Business Listings and Local SEO live for full rewires and fuse board upgrades.
Months 2 to 4
Optimise
Weekly search term, call and landing page reviews. Budget and effort moved to the jobs that close.
Months 5 to 6
Scale
Expansion into Cork and nearby areas, plus new services with proven demand.
Illustrative case study: the business is anonymised and the figures are modelled on typical results for this market. Your results depend on your market, budget, capacity and follow-up. We share realistic forecasts in your free audit.
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